Chuck Wendig has the first PSA. Note: much swearing. What I think annoys me most of all about this whole debacle is the implication that nude photos are okay to steal. Dude. There are plenty of them that are consensually shared. Letmedothis.com is one of the better tumblrs full. (Since every site has a theme, […]

I’ve seen this link about how women fare in performance reviews going around, and people have been focusing on the fact that women get tone policed. What I haven’t seen mentioned: women score more negatively in performance reviews in all ways. 58.9% of men’s reviews contained critical feedback, while an overwhelming 87.9% of the reviews […]

Delia Derbyshire wrote some of, and played all of, one of the most famous—and earliest widely-known—pieces of electronic music ever. Not only that, she did so before the advent of the first commercially-available synthesizer. (Brian Hodgson composed the tardis sound.) She was a kid in Coventry during WW2, hearing all the weird and haunting sounds […]

Natalie Luhrs has the linkfest about the fallout from Jim Frenkel’s appearance at this year’s Wiscon after last year’s harassment complaints that went, well, apparently nowhere. I know a lot of bay area locals go to Wiscon, and that’s had quite the ironic problem set, recently. I typically haven’t gone because I’d rather go to […]

Elizabeth Spiers’s article about the magazine and its founder Shanley Kane has a great quote relevant to the art vs. artist debate of yore: But important work gets done every day by flawed people, sometimes even by assholes. No one should be more aware of that than people who work in the tech industry, where […]

Because when I said no, I was raped. Conceding to the assault (rather than fighting) kept me out of the hospital. #YesAllWomen — Deirdre Saoirse Moen (@deirdresm) May 27, 2014 Later, found out my rapist had raped someone else. She fought. I hadn't seen her (before my attack) because of cracked ribs. #YesAllWomen — Deirdre […]

Below is a video of a panel called “Opening the Clubhouse Doors: Creating More Inclusive Geek Communities” panel from C2E2 2014, April 25, 2014. It happened in Chicago. At about 5 minutes in, one of the panelists tells the opening tale about an experience asking about diversity in comics: “What is the percentage of female […]

As someone who was a band geek, I have to say that I was one of those who looked down on cheerleaders—and vice-versa. I was envious of how pretty they were, envious of the attention they got, and I thought my own skills on musical instruments were More Important. You know, petty how teenagers are […]

Four months ago, I posted this commentary and critique of Box’s “Working at Box” page. It got back to me that it created quite a stir, but I hadn’t checked back on the page recently. I have noticed incoming links to that blog post, so I wondered what was up. Credit where due, Box has […]

I’m a (very minor) Baen author. I’m embarrassed by this. Honestly, I couldn’t read the whole thing. I got to this pair of sentences and bounced out: Of course we all read Heinlein and have an opinion about his work. How can you be a fan and not? Easy peasy. Life is short. I don’t […]